Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

His answer intrigued me because it identified a clear pain point that isn’t getting enough attention. As the title of this episode conveys, our discussion will weave together topics for aligning customers’ needs and business strategy. 14:27] What did you do to better align customer needs and business strategy?

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Product Talk

APRIL 20, 2022

Sally and Jim are equipped with a clear customer segment profile—first-time podcasters—and a clear value proposition—help them grow their podcast audience. Sally and Jim might set the following directional outcome: increase the average audience size for our podcast customers. Sally and Jim don’t have any customers.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Second is setting up the right funnels for access to users. I strongly believe that as a PdM, the biggest value you bring on your team is speaking to users and having a pulse of what your customers need. Typically, there are two big phases in bringing a product from vision to launch: planning and execution.

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The Product Guy

MAY 3, 2018

Moving from product concepts to execution requires the steady guidance of a product manager to listen and understand the needs and wants of the organization, the teams involved, and the users for whom the product is being built. The value that your product brings to your users comes from taking the vision of the user your team has assembled.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

She cofounded the Radical Product Thinking movement of leaders creating vision-driven change, along with authoring the book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. We need to become more vision-driven and think of our product as a mechanism for creating change in the world. Why does that world need changing?

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 21, 2023

He has established a system allowing the team to focus on understanding customer needs more deeply, creating Outcomes through hypothesis-based testing, and measuring progress through Velocity, Win Rate and impact towards their North Star Metric. In a minute, he will tell us how to do the same thing.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A digital customer experience coupled with rapid physical product creation – insights for product managers. Both my co-founder Brian and I experienced pain points when we were buying engagement rings. We’re building a new digital product that’s the first of its kind for custom jewelry design online.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

An interactive demo is a self-guided walkthrough that uses tooltips, modals, hotspots, and other interactive elements to help users quickly explore your SaaS product. This both shortens the sales process and enhances the customer experience. Look for patterns in customer behavior, common questions, and recurring challenges.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Which problems solve user pain points faster? Is it worth pursuing and will it actually bring value to the customer? A roadmap takes items in your backlog and provides strategic information as to the opportunity these ideas can provide. A well defined product vision is the cornerstone for a successful product.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2021

In the effort to bring the company’s vision into reality, the details matter, often more than the innovation and completeness of the vision itself. Of course, in the process, the vision might be changed or refined, but it most likely wouldn’t be reinvented altogether. This should be your first step into product strategy.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Also, in various organizations which have grown in product maturity, customer base etc., This role also focuses on increasing the retention rate for existing customers. A well defined product strategy provides insights into the deep customer problems that your product is trying to address.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 11, 2022

What are some good product vision examples? How is the product vision different from the company vision? What makes a great product vision? How should product managers develop effective product vision statements? Product vision and company vision overlap in single-product organizations.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We then jammed those models into our platform so that customers could access the outputs in many ways.” We’ve onboarded many customers onto our predictive suite and every time we get the same question: ‘How can I test that it works?’ Asking the customer to use a service that makes decisions for them means asking them to trust you.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

Innovators have to build first reference customers in the mainstream market to prove having a promising business model and a compelling offering. Starting with a niche market ensures focusing on a very specific customer problem and probably little to no competition. As we do not have yet data available from live customers?—?or

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The key isnt just understanding users but unlocking insights that lead to solutions they cant live without. Product discovery is critical in identifying workflows, pain points, and user goals that shape successful products. Common Pitfalls Rushing into solutions without exploring user needs derails discovery.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Every single person that contributes to building a product, all of the makers in the room, we need to care about our customers, we need to make sure that what we’re building is going to work for them, and I want to introduce some ideas that will help you do that. What I saw was they were talking to customers periodically.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

They’ll go off with their designers and come up with a grand vision to toss over the wall to the engineers for implementation. Building great products is a collaborative process that works well if everyone agrees on the product vision and strategy. Foremost you want to openly preach the product vision. Another problem is bias.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

Stakeholders need to feel informed, valued, and included in the decision-making process. How to Do It: Regular Updates: Set up a Notion page or a stakeholder newsletter to keep everyone informed about progress, challenges, and next steps. If stakeholders feel heard, theyre more likely to buy into your vision and collaborate.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 4, 2018

But when it comes to customer loyalty, millennials are different. So for anyone who wants to connect with millennials, or is even just thinking about how they can build a better digital product, here are some tips to help your brand through User Experience (UX) design. Having empathy with the user is a hot topic.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2021

There’s a good reason that the seemingly simple Net Promoter Score (NPS) has become a ubiquitous, revered statistic in modern business – this single number is viewed as a measure of customer loyalty, a way to benchmark competitive performance, and has been proven to correlate with revenue growth (hence the popularity).

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 25, 2021

We have achieved a great deal in the past decade – we have built a lot of great product , hired hundreds of wonderful people , and helped thousands of amazing companies form lasting relationships with their own customers. Eoghan describes the original vision behind Intercom. They were seeking an initial $600,000 in funding. “We

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 8, 2024

At its core, stakeholder management is about building strong relationships, fostering trust, and ensuring that everyone is working toward the same product vision. Their directives may override data-backed insights or customer needs, leaving PMs to balance the demand for quick wins with long-term product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2022

Lessons and Insights from ‘The Mom Test: How to Talk to Customers’ by Rob Fitzpatrick “The Mom Test: How to Talk to Customers…” is a practical how-to guide that allows you to properly evaluate your current or next business idea. Finding conversations Now you know everything about talking to your customers. Go to crypto meetups!

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Mind the Product

JUNE 20, 2019

Even with very short cycles between discovery and delivery, it can take up to several months from identifying a user problem to the release of a potential solution to real users. She says that you can only create significant value for the business by solving the big problems for the users. Understanding User Needs is key.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 31, 2024

Presenting this information to the leader got him on board with the opportunity. The platform and web application he works on, finfire, connects Netfonds with their customers, their clients, banks, and insurers. To begin his continuous discovery journey, Sebastian wanted to get access to customers.

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Usersnap

MARCH 24, 2025

Product discovery provides insights and evidence to make informed decisions at every stage of the Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC), ensuring the final product aligns with user needs. Yet, many teams rush into development without properly testing ideas, leading to wasted effort and failed launches.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It starts from understanding who your customers are, what are the pain points of the customers, coming up with solutions to resolve those pain points, and finally implementing those solutions. Clarity on the vision is half battle won. Product development is a pretty complicated process.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

Benefits of a product strategy framework include better alignment between product development and business goals and improved user satisfaction. Start by defining product vision and mission to give clarity to your team and determine the right direction to move. Analyze in-app user satisfaction using tools like NPS and CSAT surveys.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2022

Customer relationship management (CRM) is a strategy and methodology that revolves around using data and feedback to build authentic, meaningful relationships with prospects and customers, keeping them connected and loyal to your company. What is customer relationship marketing? .

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

In an era defined by relentless innovation and unprecedented customer expectations, the nature of financial services marketing has changed. Todays customers expect financial brands to deliver deeply personalized, seamless digital experiences at every touchpoint, consistently reinforcing what they stand for.

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UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

It bridges the gap between observation and action, transforming scattered (and messy) information into clear, prioritised insights that can drive product strategy. Encourage team members to share user stories that exemplify key pain points or successes.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Pictured from top to bottom, product manager Sören Weber, product designer Emilio Martins, user researcher Mara Zocco, and product designer Gabriel Hourigan. The Challenge: Identifying and Prioritizing User Problems Consistently and Effectively. Interviewing customers to identify opportunities is a skill that needs to be developed.

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UX Planet

MARCH 29, 2025

In any case, hang around because well go over why UX design strategy is crucial, how to create one, and what the problems arefor you, your team, and, most importantly, your customers. At its core, UX strategy serves as your guide for crafting experiences that genuinely resonate with users and encourage them to engage.

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Userpilot

MARCH 29, 2023

How can it help product and marketing teams make data-driven decisions and improve the user experience at different stages of the customer journey? Utilizing digital analytics enables them to make data-driven product decisions , and identify user friction and pain points. What’s digital analytics?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Gathering meaningful insight from your customers is a challenge for any product manager: what you need is a handy user persona survey template to help you capture it… We’re here to help! In this article, we’re going to explore how user personas can help you gather and utilize customer insight more effectively.

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Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

We talked about opportunity solution trees , customer journey maps, experience maps, story mapping —there are lots of ways for teams to externalize their thinking so that they can align around it and stakeholders can follow their progress. We teach using customer interviews to discover opportunities. You talked to the next customer.

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